20 minutes of kids punching their way out of poverty and into your feelings.
Agressivity and the will to compete are also part of childhood. At a poor district’s boxing club the kids live a close friendship and find a place to express a fury that is violent but liberating.
Cinematography
Tight, sweaty close-ups that put you inside the ring with these kids.
Direction
Baldaia's film school project that punches way above its weight class.
Director
Diogo Baldaia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Diogo Baldaia made this as his thesis film at Lisbon's Film School (ESTC), shot in his own neighborhood.
The film captures Portugal's 2010s economic crisis through children's bodies—boxing clubs doubled as social services for working-class families.
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